Zend Framework

This article shows how to use the URL view helper in Zend Framework 2 to build URLs to child routes. It furthermore discusses a quite useful feature of the view helper in order to reuse matched route parameters when building an URL.

If you wish to use a secure connection when sending e-mails via an SMTP server in Zend Framework 2, then this article shows you how to do this. The official documentation comes to no avail, but luckily the solution is extremely simple.

Validating a single form element rather than an entire form can be useful in many situations. This task used to be very trivial in Zend Framework 1, but is slightly more complicated in Zend Framework 2. This article explains how to accomplish this in a fairly simple way.

This article walks through how to create a view helper in Zend Framework 2. It is a step by step guide which will create a view helper used for building links to static resources that reside on a subdomain. This is particularly useful when using a Content Delivery Network (CDN).

This article is meant as an introduction to Zend Framework 2’s event system. It begins by giving an introduction to the concepts of the event system and further discusses the event manager. Examples of how to attach event listeners and how to trigger events are also provided.

This article gives an introduction on how to use sessions in Zend Framework 2. As it turns out, it is actually very easy. Information on what happens behind the scenes is also provided, so if you are the kind of person who likes to know the details, then this article is also for you.

Avoiding hard coded dependencies is something the PHP community is still trying to grasp. The use of OOP tools such as interfaces are still making its way into the PHP programmers’ minds. Luckily, Zend Framework 2 makes both approaches possible when it comes to loading modules with the Module class.